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The space industry has experienced substantial growth in recent years, leading to rapid advancements in space exploration and space-based technologies. Consequently, the study of electronics and sensor performance in extreme environments has become crucial ...

EPFL2024

Methodology for selecting measurement points that optimize information gain for model updating

Ian Smith, Numa Joy Bertola

Information collected through sensor measurements has the potential to improve knowledge of complex-system behavior, leading to better decisions related to system management. In this situation, and particularly when using digital twins, the quality of sens ...

2023

Burst Vision Using Single-Photon Cameras

Edoardo Charbon, Paul Mos, Mohit Gupta

Single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) are novel image sensors that record the arrival of individual photons at extremely high temporal resolution. In the past, they were only available as single pixels or small-format arrays, for various active imaging ap ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2023

LenslessPiCam: A Hardware and Software Platform for Lensless Computational Imaging with a Raspberry Pi

Martin Vetterli, Sepand Kashani, Matthieu Martin Jean-André Simeoni, Eric Bezzam

This toolkit has everything you need to perform imaging with a lensless camera. We make use of a low-cost implementation of DiffuserCam, namely replacing the lens with a piece of tape and using the Raspberry Pi HQ camera sensor. Similar principles and meth ...

Zenodo2023

Spatial-Temporal Graph Attention Fuser for Calibration in IoT Air Pollution Monitoring Systems

Olga Fink, Mengjie Zhao, Keivan Faghih Niresi

The use of Internet of Things (IoT) sensors for air pollution monitoring has significantly increased, resulting in the deployment of low-cost sensors. Despite this advancement, accurately calibrating these sensors in uncontrolled environmental conditions r ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2023

Interlocking modular microfluidic cooling substrates for future high energy physics experiments

Massimo Angeletti

In high energy physics, semiconductor-based sensors are widely used in particle tracking applications. These sensors are typically glued on low-mass cooling substrates, which guarantee the correct thermal management and, at the same time, minimise their in ...

EPFL2023

Tumescense monitoring system for diagnosing erectile dysfunction and methods of use

Nikolaos Stergiopoulos, Rodrigo Araujo Fraga Da Silva

Systems and methods for monitoring penile tumescence are provided that overcome the drawbacks of previously known systems by providing a wearable formed of a flexible and elastic tube having a plurality of sensors disposed on or embedded within it, the wea ...

2023

Roadmap on Optical Sensors

Luc Thévenaz, Lei Zhang

Optical sensors and sensing technologies are playing a more and more important role in our modern world. From micro-probes to large devices used in such diverse areas like medical diagnosis, defense, monitoring of industrial and environmental conditions, o ...

2023

Method and light microscope with a plurality of arrays of photon-counting detector elements

Claudio Bruschini, Edoardo Charbon, Ivan Michel Antolovic

A method for operating a light microscope comprises emitting and guiding a plurality of illumination light beams towards a specimen (6) to form a plurality of separated illumination light spots (2A, 2B, 2C, 2D) at the specimen; and guiding detection light ...

2022

Highly Sensitive Detection of the Antidepressant Fluoxetine With an Extended Gate Field Effect Transistor

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Shokoofeh Sheibani

Fluoxetine (FL) is one of the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, which is used as an anti-depressant, as well as anti-panic drug. In this work, a sensor for label-free recognition of trace amounts of FL is introduced, which is based on an extended ga ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Digitised Newspapers – A New Eldorado for Historians? Reflections on Tools, Methods and Epistemology

Maud Ehrmann, Frédéric Clavert

The application of digital technologies to historical newspapers has changed the research landscape historians were used to. An Eldorado? Despite undeniable advantages, the new digital affordance of historical newspapers also transforms research practices ...

De Gruyter2022

A Wearable Smart Glove and Its Application of Pose and Gesture Detection to Sign Language Classification

Josephine Anna Eleanor Hughes

Advances in soft sensors coupled with machine learning are enabling increasingly capable wearable systems. Since hand motion in particular can convey useful information for developing intuitive interfaces, glove-based systems can have a significant impact ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.2022

NIR Fluorescence lifetime macroscopic imaging with a time-gated SPAD camera

Claudio Bruschini, Edoardo Charbon, Arin Can Ülkü

The performance of SwissSPAD2 (SS2), a large scale, widefield time-gated CMOS SPAD imager developed for fluorescence lifetime imaging, has recently been described in the context of visible range and fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) of dyes w ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2022

A medical system and method using a pair of gloves equipped with physiological sensors

David Atienza Alonso

A medical system comprising a first wearable device configured to be worn by a first hand of a user, a second wearable device configured to be worn by a second hand of the user, a first sensor device arranged on the first wearable device, the first sensor ...

2021

Holistic, Efficient, and Real-time Cleaning of Heterogeneous Data

Styliani Asimina Giannakopoulou

Data cleaning has become an indispensable part of data analysis due to the increasing amount of dirty data. Data scientists spend most of their time preparing dirty data before it can be used for data analysis. Existing solutions that attempt to automate t ...

EPFL2021

Multitask adaptation with Lattice-Free MMI for multi-genre speech recognition of low resource languages

Hervé Bourlard, Petr Motlicek

In this paper, we develop Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems for multi-genre speech recognition of low-resource languages where training data is predominantly conversational speech but test data can be in one of the following genres: news broadcast ...

ISCA-INT SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOC2021

Measuring and modeling the motor system with machine learning

Mackenzie Mathis, Alexander Mathis, Alessandro Marin Vargas

The utility of machine learning in understanding the motor system is promising a revolution in how to collect, measure, and analyze data. The field of movement science already elegantly incorporates theory and engineering principles to guide experimental w ...

2021

Multispectral image sensor and method for fabrication of an image sensor

Assim Boukhayma

The present invention relates to a multispectral image sensor having a pixel array for detecting images with light components in different wavelength ranges, comprising a plurality of imaging layers each embedded in a semiconductor substrate, wherein in ea ...

2020

Large field of view multi-camera endoscopic apparatus with omni-directional illumination

Yusuf Leblebici, Ömer Cogal

A multi-camera hemispherical very wide field of view imaging apparatus with omnidirectional illumination capability comprises a cylindrical body (4, 4.a, 4.b), a hemispherical mechanical frame (2) arranged on one end of the cylindrical body (4, 4.a, 4.b), ...

2020

Advancing ecohydrology in the 21st century: A convergence of opportunities

Andrea Rinaldo, Nicolaas Cornelis van de Giesen, Gabriel George Katul

Nature-based solutions for water-resource challenges require advances in the science of ecohydrology. Current understanding is limited by a shortage of observations and theories that can further our capability to synthesize complex processes across scales ...

2020